Posts by diodesign 3533 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011
Hi -- we've reviewed the piece and, yes, stop gap wasn't the right word for the reasons you've given.
For one thing, as a publication, our editorial line is that nuclear is not a stop gap - we should be in it for the long haul, and the nuclear by its very nature is a long-haul undertaking. There's no stop gap to it.
We've tweaked the piece accordingly. Thanks for the feedback.
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Snowflake is a publicly traded company so their response is going to be painfully worded. But it's, simply put, denied it was compromised directly, leading to the theft of data, and instead suggested its customers may have been individually pwned by losing control of their own credentials.
Still not a great look either way. This situation is ongoing.
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Best thing you can do if you like our articles is tell your friends and share our links.
We appreciate it so much; thank you. We don't need subscriptions or pay walls or anti-ad-blocker begging.
We just need people from all walks of IT life reading and sharing us. Thanks again :)
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There's a line between saying an internet provider is being used by criminals and an internet provider is actively involved in a crime. If any comments have been moderated in the past, it's possibly because a line was crossed and flagged in a way we couldn't ignore legally.
Pretty much every internet platform gets used for wrong at some point.
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Hi -- just a note from the moderation team. This discussion was going OK until someone (not the above poster but someone who replied to the above poster and has had their post removed) started using racial slurs.
Can we keep it civil and respectful, please. Ta. We don't want to get in the way.
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No, surprisingly, the BGN was established in 1890 and has been going since then. See the links in the story.
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The Acornsoft team claimed Arthur was short for something like A RISC operating system by Thursday, as they didn't have long to whack it together before the hardware shipped, and ARX was not close to completion.
Arthur and RISC OS can trace their heritage back to the BBC Micro MOS, as that was pretty much used to jumpstart Arthur development, from which RISC OS 2 grew.
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If you watch the original source, they said it was installed 26 years ago (1998) and it was designed to last 20-25 years, which all makes sense, and why it needs upgrading.
I think perhaps some of us think 1998 was 10 years ago. It was 26. In 1998, USB was only 2 years old. Netscape was 4 years old. Arm IPO'd. 1998 is hella history.
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"Certain exceptions" indeed, Elon.
Broadly worded clauses that ban people from discussing working conditions, employer policies and practices, severance terms and wages, conditions of employment, and related matters are likely to fall foul of the NLRB.
NDAs about trade secrets are OK, for example, but that's not what we're talking about here.
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Hi -- I think this says more about you than about us and your perception of criticism against Elon.
We're just pointing out that this launch went through the same sort of thing (RUD) SpaceX had to overcome. And Musk's lot figured it out, so good luck to Japan.
If Microsoft had a massive hole in its Windows login system and then Linux had a similar issue a week or year later, we'd probably reference that Microsoft bug in the Linux coverage. Pattern recognition; it's what humans do.
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Ah, there's more detail in the previous article that we link to. The electric gun could be solar powered or from a nuclear device. Or any other way you want to make electricity.
And I've added some more links at the start of this latest piece to more info about the tech.
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Yes, we've expanded that part of the article. We do know what IP addresses and P2P comms are all about.
This is a heads up for those who assumed Twitter's calling feature was routed through X servers. It's not, by default, you have to switch that on.
We felt this was something worth pointing out to people in general. Not everyone is an IT expert like yourself.
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